Meh, having tried high sex before, I honestly prefer low sex.

Especially since no seat on the plane will be as roomy as the one in the waiting area.

You can pronounce any word any way you like, full stop. But pronouncing them the way most people do just makes for more effective communication.

Put bluntly, those who live off labour aren’t the enemy. Those who live off property (aka others’ labour) are.

Please reread my common. I said in my region, western austria, we use the formal you less than the rest of the German speaking world does.

Hair darkens with age in most people, no?

Do people actually say that irl?

Like I said, I’m in Austria

Haha close, 950 commuting down to 600. But it’s the same down there in the city. Most of my social contacts as well as my work are there, anyway!

The former is what I used to think, but I’ve been noticing she does it in one-on-one conversation as well, and as far as I can tell, that’s the case for everyone. Also, in written assignments, in the beginning, it would be, for example, ‘schreibe […]’ and is now ‘escrivez […]’

It’s also a uni class, so not all students are younger than the teacher.

I’m in Austria speaking German and I’m learning French. Our rules for ‘du’ are very different from the ones in Germany though, and vary wildly regionally- from using ‘Sie’ for your drinking buddies to using ‘du’ for authority figures. From what I gather in this thread, the rules in Germany and France are similar?

How about in a uni class? My teacher uses ‘vous’ and ‘du’. That’s what prompted the question!

I could answer my own question, actually!

For reference, I’m in western austria, speaking German. The class I’m taking is A2 French.

My region is pretty different from most of the German speaking ‘world’. We use the formal you much less. The informal one is more or less th default, except:

You’re in secondary school. The teachers will use the informal one for students and the students have to use the formal one for most teachers. In high school, students can technically request that teachers use the formal you for them, but nobody does. I teach night school, and nobody used the formal you. Most of my students are very roughly around my age.

You’re seeing a doctor you don’t repeatedly go to, e.g. at the hospital. We use informal you for the specialists and GPs we see regularly, unless they’re ~60+.

You’re a bachelor’s student. Formal you for both students and professors. Unless the teacher is a masters or PhD student, then informal you both ways. Masters and PhD students tend to use informal you with professors and vice versa, but some professors will be the exception and there will be formal you both ways.

Court. Formal you, except between a lawyer and their client.

Some stuffy, old fashioned workplaces use formal you, but only between boss and employees, very very rarely between employees. If it’s some higher level management person you don’t usually work with, it’s more likely you’ll use formal you both ways.

Super specific, but 80+ year old people who’ve never lived outside a city will want kids to use formal you for them, but they’ll use the informal one for the kids.

German tourists. We’re aware that informal you is more common in Germany, and try to me courteous. Except those of us who hate tourists, lol.

That’s all the exceptions I can think of! For everyone else, including strangers (e.g. when asking for directions, cashiers, waiters, etc.) we use the informal one!

Personally dislike these performative overly pc terms. Call me an aspie slut or sth

‘investigating claims’ isn’t exactly saying theres clear evidence it happened. I’m not at all saying it didn’t. Does anyone have a better source?

Can confirm, have takeny concerta, skipped most of it to look for the joke and only read the second from last one properly. Efficient humor consumption.

There’s two possibilities here: either you were already getting proper hydration from food (fruit, vegetables, soups, stews etc all have a bunch of water), or you weren’t getting proper hydration from drinking water. The latter could be because you lack electrolytes (you can buy em as a powder and add to your water), or you weren’t spacing out your drinking properly. You can only absorb so much water at once (about 250ml every quarter hour at most). Sipping slowly all day is key, chugging a lot at once isn’t going to benefit you much(unless you’re trying to fight a urinary tract issue like kidney stones or sometimes a UTI).

Interestingly enough, I’m 80% sure, because it was a weekday, and I sat in the exact same spot for all of high school. The 20% are for the possibility I was sick, in the bathroom, or had a special class I had to leave our classroom for.

They honestly look like the little bags I crocheted to keep phone/wallet/keys when I was like 11 and proud I now had a phone, wallet and keys.

My favourite are little kids, who can barely read, but whose parents definitely can. Taking note of the shirts was one of my favourite things about summer camp. They were all like ‘horses! pink!’ or ‘summer, sun, flowers’ or ‘dinosaur pirates’ or other nonsensical collections of vaguely related words.